[Piotr Banowski]

I’ve recently had to use Illustrator just to add type and a few symbols to raster image. Jesus… what age was this program excavated from? I’ve literally wrote 8 “illustrator how to…” google queries and still failed to make a simple rounded-edge road number shield (but with top corners not rounded and in perfect symmetry). One of those queries led me here. Eventually it took me 30s to do it in AutoCAD and import it. On another not – snapping is atrocious, while data organization wants to be taken out back and shot so it misery might finally end.

Take linework from AutoCAD, cull hundreds of uberspecific tools down to their functions, leave vector effects of Illustrator and organize all user-accessible data into one full hierarchy like in 3d modeling apps. This would be an epic program.

Honestly it does look like they preserve legacy tools/modifiers just not to piss off old-school illustrator designers who have already crawled dozens of hours through crap to learn full potential of this program.